Tuesday, October 30, 2012

With a morning available for radio-activity I went over to the still not activated PAFF-056 - Buurserzand &
Haaksbergseveen. A nice quiet area close to the German border. More precisely a combination of two adjoining nature parks.

It took me more time to get there than I anticipated so I did not have a lot of time to be on the air. I chose to work 20m and 40m only. Both bands were not very stable (strong QSB) and 40m brought S7 QRM but I logged 99 calls from 20 DXCCs anyway. The maximum QRB was only 3600km into UA9.A couple of OMs came by on both bands.73,Lars / PH0NO

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

EnzoLog support added to our PAFF award programWith the new PAFF award program we were looking for an easy way to check requests and make individual PAFF scores available to chasers. Using the mail archive of Hans PA3FYG and the help of a number of activators we were able to build up a database containing about 95% of all PAFF logs.With this local database we can check all award requests but it is still not easy for a chaser to check his own PAFF status. This is where Enzo came to the rescue. With his web log service he now supports the PAFF award program. If you go to this page you can enter your callsign and find out how many (and which) PAFFs you worked.

As a side note: with the local database we can also find out all sorts of trivia on the PAFF activities. Check out the stats page that shows some of this data.

PC5Z activated PAFF-068 - Verdronken Land van SaeftingheHarm PC5Z added another new one to the list in the first week after publication of the new PAFFs. Sunday he went over to his nearest PAFF location for an activity of 3,5 hours. Harm used 20m and 40m and was busy all the time working about 350 OMs. Amongst them quite some DX from the east (UA9, JA, HK and VR2).

Dipole of PC5Z @ PAFF-068

Harm used a dipole on 20m and an end fed wire on 40m with his Yaesu FT-847 at 100 Watt output..That is new PAFF reference number 4... 21 to go!

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Three different activities on three new PAFF references by PG7V and PH0NOWith the new reference list there are 25 parks that still need to be activated. Enough motivation to go out and check out the new parks - illustrated by three activations in two days:

Friday JanJaap PG7V went out to activate Leuvenumse Bos, PAFF-066. He went by bicycle and took his FT-817nd. JanJaap managed to work 110 stations in over 2 hours with this QRP set-up on 40, 30, 20 and 17m CW and SSB. You can find more information about his activity here: http://www.pg7v.com/activation-of-new-one-paff-066